Phase IV

Text: Tristan Ceddia


Tonight The Narrows presents Phase IV, a film by Saul Bass at the Rooftop Cinema, Melbourne

Phase IV is an ecological suspense tale and the feature length film directorial debut of famed graphic designer Saul Bass. Bass, who won an Academy Award for his short film Why Man Creates pioneered the art of title sequences with conceptual opening graphics for films by Otto Preminger (Carmen Jones, The Man with the Golden Arm), Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, North by Northwest), Stanley Kubrick (Spartacus) and Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Casino).

Phase IV
Wednesday February 24, 8pm
The Rooftop Cinema
Level 6, Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street Melbourne

Also featured is educational short The Searching Eye also directed by Bass and a display of original Phase IV cinema posters in the cinema foyer.

Look out for our interview with Warren Taylor from The Narrows in the March issue of The Blackmail.